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There are many reasons for businesses looking to develop or expand their markets and sales beyond UK shores.

The UK Government's Defence Investment Plan represents a strategic shift toward autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing, creating significant opportunities for the North West's defence technology sector. With substantial investment flowing into uncrewed platforms, cyber resilience, and digital infrastructure over the next decade, regional businesses must understand how intellectual property protection will determine their competitive advantage. This analysis examines the plan

Both the automotive sector and the broader advanced‑manufacturing landscape are facing levels of disruption unseen in decades.

You run a busy department, have numerous responsibilities to fulfil and many deadlines to meet. You are confident that there are no anomalies behind your numbers and any which arose would be quickly picked up and remedied by your internal control procedures. You rely on certain key reports to make important business decisions and you have absolute confidence in these reports.

Last week marked a pivotal moment in artificial intelligence as OpenAI declared the start of the AGI era with its Astra model, followed by Nvidia's CEO claiming AGI has already arrived. Amid breakthrough mathematical proofs and public resignations from AI researchers warning of extinction risks, questions emerge about what AGI truly means and whether humanity is prepared for the implications of machines that can reason at human levels without consciousness or moral responsibility.

The automotive semiconductor market faces a fragmented recovery shaped by AI demand, evolving vehicle architectures, and the rise of Chinese competitors. While global semiconductor growth accelerates, automotive chips lag behind, creating strategic challenges for OEMs and suppliers navigating shifting power dynamics, technology transitions, and geopolitical pressures in an increasingly complex landscape.

The RIBA, Construction Project Information Committee and BuildingSmart jointly proposed a definition of BIM for the UK construction industry, as a starting point for discussion and refinement.

The software industry faces a critical strategic choice as generative AI capabilities advance: should enterprise systems be replaced by large language models, or is there a more nuanced path forward? This analysis examines why the probabilistic nature of LLMs makes them fundamentally unsuited to replace deterministic enterprise software, and proposes an integration strategy that combines the strengths of both approaches.

It sounds like a seasonal horror film premise, but it reflects a serious question now being discussed in the AI community: what happens when large numbers of AI agents collaborate? These so-called ‘agentic swarms’ could achieve outcomes that would be difficult or impossible for a single agent acting alone.

Advanced materials science is revolutionizing space exploration, from lightweight composites reducing launch costs to radiation-shielding alloys protecting deep space missions. As governments and private companies pursue sustainable exploration and settlement beyond Earth, innovations in materials engineering are becoming both a competitive advantage and a commercial imperative, with intellectual property protection playing an increasingly critical role in securing investment and building long-term value.

Nobody builds systems that way anymore, which is roughly his point about the systems everyone is building today. He thinks large language models are simply the current enabling technology, and that in 10 years we’ll find it remarkable that we ever thought this was how you did AI

The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (UK CTR 2025) came into force on 28 April 2026, representing the most substantial reform of the UK's 'clinical trials ecosystem'...

Commentators have been talking about the end of cash and its replacement with an "e-purse" for years but now, finally, some schemes are actually delivering on the hype. Louise Brett and Peter Simon examine what it takes to make chips do the work of coins.